A Guide to the Diary of Catherine Barbara Broun, 1862-1885
A Collection in the
Thomas Balch Library
Collection Number SC 0083
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Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
Collection open for research use only and is not to be copied.
Use Restrictions
Copyright is retained by the author of this item or her descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law. Permission to reproduce or publish material in this collection must be obtained from current copyright holder.
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Acquisition Information
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
Alternative Form Available
Digitized version available from Southern Historical Collection
Accruals
1995.0054
Processing Information
Emily Hershman, 15 June 2011
Biographical Information
Catherine Barbara Broun (1820-1903) lived at Sunny Bank Farm in Middleburg, Virginia, during and after the turbulent years of the Civil War. She kept a detailed diary during this period, noting the struggles of maintaining the farm despite consistent foraging by both Union and Confederate troops. Broun's eyewitness account describes troop movements in the area, as well as the dispersal of local Confederate units such as Mosby's Rangers at war's end. After the war, Broun continued to manage Sunny Bank Farm until her death. Today, Sunny Bank Farm is a popular location for the Middleburg Hunt.
Scope and Content
The Diary of Catherine Barbara Broun collection consists of photocopied transcripts of the journal Broun kept during the Civil War era. In it she recounts such events as struggling to get a pass to travel through military lines in Washington, D.C., offering provisions to Confederate troops in the area, as well as noting the men killed or taken prisoner in local skirmishes. Despite the necessity of hosting Union cavalry and infantry units at her home, Broun was a Confederate sympathizer, describing Lee's surrender and the evacuation of Richmond as "heartbreaking." After the war, her diary focuses primarily on visits with neighbors and the purchase of household items.
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Bibliography
Diary in the Catherine Barbara Hopkins Broun Papers #2389-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/b/Broun,Catherine_Barbara_Hopkins.htmlDiary of Catherine Barbara Broun (SC 0083), Thomas Balch Library, Leesburg, VA.
"Tax Break Credited in Saving Va. Land," The Washington Post 16 May 2006 (Accessed 17 June 2011).
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Bibliography
Diary in the Catherine Barbara Hopkins Broun Papers #2389-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/b/Broun,Catherine_Barbara_Hopkins.htmlDiary of Catherine Barbara Broun (SC 0083), Thomas Balch Library, Leesburg, VA.
"Tax Break Credited in Saving Va. Land," The Washington Post 16 May 2006 (Accessed 17 June 2011).